SCOBIE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-19 published
The voice of Ontario horse racing
For three decades, the announcer added detail and drama to his
calls at Woodbine, Fort Erie and Greenwood tracks
By Allison
LAWLOR,
Special to The Globe and Mail Friday, December
19, 2003 - Page R13
When the great Secretariat burst out of the starting gate at
Toronto's Woodbine Race Track on that dark and miserable day
in late October, 1973, in what would be his final race, Daryl
WELLS was behind the microphone calling the race for fans.
"In a blaze of glory, ladies and gentlemen, he's all yours,"
Mr. WELLS cried as the Triple Crown-winner won the Canadian International
by 12 lengths.
Daryl WELLSJr. was there that day in the announcer's booth to
hear what would be his father's most famous call and share his
excitement of seeing the last career race of the horse, considered
by many to be the greatest thoroughbred of all time.
"I thought it was the greatest thing that ever happened," said
Daryl WELLSJr., who carried on the tradition and now calls races
at Ontario's Fort Erie track.
Mr. WELLS, the voice of Ontario thoroughbred racing for more
30 years, from just after the new Woodbine Race Track opened
in the spring of 1956 to the summer of 1986, died last Friday
of heart disease in Niagara Falls, Ontario He was 81.
For three decades, Mr.
WELLS was at the Ontario Jockey Club microphone,
describing the thoroughbred races at Woodbine, Fort Erie and
Greenwood, entertaining fans with his calls that were both accurate
and exciting. When the gates opened, fans could often be heard
imitating his familiar, trademark call: "They're off."
Whether it was a small, weekday afternoon race or the prestigious
Queen'sPlate,Mr.WELLS made every call dramatic and detailed.
"Every horse got his call," said his long-time friend Gary
ALLES.
Behind the microphone, Mr.
WELLS was a pro who also had a mischievous
streak that could sometimes be seen in the announcer's booth.
Mr. ALLES remembers one day sitting next to his friend while
he was calling a race at Woodbine. A second after telling fans
where their horses were in the race, he switched off his microphone
and asked Mr.
ALLES which horse he had betted on that day. Back
to the microphone, he gave fans a quick update before turning
off the microphone again. This time with the microphone off,
he started giving Mr.
ALLES the call he really wanted to hear
that his horse looked poised to win. But before Mr.
ALLES
could get too excited the microphone was back on again and Mr.
WELLS was giving fans the true account of the race.
"He had a mischievousness that emanated from his eyes," Mr.
ALLES
said.
Daryl Frederick
WELLS was born on December 10, 1922, in Victoria.
As a young boy, he would tag along when his parents went to the
races. "That's what got him interested," said his wife, Marian
WELLS.
By the age of 15, he had entered the broadcasting world as a
disc jockey, after a local radio station allowed him to play
a few records. "It [his career] took off from there," Daryl
WELLS
Jr. said.
Several years later, he headed east and got a job in the sports
department of radio station
CHML in Hamilton, where he worked
in the 1940s and 1950s and later as a sports director for
CHCH-TV.
During the Second World War, he served for a time in Britain
with the Canadian Army.
Ed BRADLEY, a former general manager of Greenwood, Mohawk and
Garden City Raceways, can remember his first introduction to
Mr. WELLS in 1955. Working then as an announcer at Long Branch
track in Toronto's west end, Mr.
BRADLEY recalls one day seeing
a man standing around outside his announcer's booth watching
while he worked.
The next day he saw the same man again. Mr.
BRADLEY was curious
about this mysterious man but thought nothing of him again until
the following spring when the track opened in Fort Erie. He was
in the announcing booth when his manager came to him to tell
him he had a new guy for him to break in.
"The guy walked in and it was Daryl
WELLS,"
Mr.BRADLEY said.
They got down to work and, right away, Mr.
BRADLEY recognized
Mr. WELLS's voice from his broadcasting work. After three days
of training, Mr.
WELLS was ready to call a race on his own.
"He turned out to be a real pro," Mr.
BRADLEY said, adding that
Mr. WELLS was very descriptive in his calls and got to know what
the jockeys were doing during a race.
During a time when horse racing was among the country's favourite
sports, and fans would regularly stream out of work to head to
the bar to watch a race, Mr.
WELLS was its voice, said Wally
WOOD, a former long-time racing columnist. "He was the poster
boy for the sport," Mr. Wood said. "He was willing to do anything
to promote racing....
"He was very good for racing," Mr.
WOOD added.
A true showman, Mr.
WELLS not only had the voice, but he looked
as though he had just stepped out of an Armani commercial. "Daryl
was show business and he dressed like it," Mr.
ALLES said.
After 30 years as a well-loved fixture in the announcing booth,
Mr. WELLS left Woodbine in July of 1986 amid controversy. His
employers suspended him after the Ontario Racing Commission fined
him for his part in a 1983 wager that returned a $237,598 payoff.
"Touting" (volunteering an opinion on the outcome of a race for
profit) was the official description and is strictly against
the rules. While it was never a case of Mr.
WELLS affecting the
outcome of a race, he was suspended and his career as a horse-race
announcer was over.
"He missed the excitement of the track," Ms.
WELLS said, adding
that it was the people he missed most of all. After he left Woodbine,
he seldom went to the track except on special occasions.
"He always wanted to be surrounded by people," said Ms.
WELLS,
who never knew when she would come home to find her husband throwing
an impromptu party.
Mr. WELLS, who had been living in Lewiston, New York since the
late 1980s, died on December 12 at the Greater Niagara General
Hospital in Niagara Falls. He leaves his wife; children Dana,
Daryl Jr. and Wendy; sister Velda
SCOBIE; and stepchildren Michael,
Kelly and Jeffrey.

SCOFIELD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-24 published
Fight master set standards for stage combat
Canadian Press, Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - Page R9
Stratford, Ontario -- Patrick (Paddy)
CREAN, a longtime fight
director at the Stratford Festival who set international standards
on staging combat in theatre, died Monday after an illness. He
was 93.
Mr. CREAN, who was a competitive fencer, began choreographing
fights in 1932 when he was working in his native England as an
actor in The Legends of Don Juan. From then on he was frequently
hired to stage fight scenes in theatre and movies such as The
Master of Ballantree and The Sword of Sherwood Forest. He worked
with actors including Paul
SCOFIELD,
LaurenceOLIVIER, Trevor
HOWARD, Alec
GUINNESS, Douglas
FAIRBANKS Jr. and Errol
FLYNN,
often acting as
FLYNN's stunt double in movies.
Mr. CREAN first came to the Stratford Festival in 1962 to be
fight arranger for a staging of Macbeth and ended up by making
Stratford his home. He remained as festival fight director until
1983, arranging combat scenes for such demanding productions
as The Three Musketeers. He continued to work as an actor, sometimes
taking small roles in shows for which he had done fight arranging
and also performing a one-man show, The Sun Never Sets. A funeral
will be held Saturday in Stratford.

SCOTT o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-05-21 published
Nellie Eveleen
NOLAND
Nellie NOLAND, a resident of Bayside Apartments, Gore Bay, passed away at
the Mindemoya Hospital on Monday, May 19, 2003 at the age of 84 years.
She was born in Burpee Township, daughter of the late Thomas and Flora
SCOTT)
WITTY.
Nellie worked hard all her life on the farm, cleaning camps and
cottages and raising her family. She enjoyed cooking, baking, sewing,
knitting and crocheting many items for all her family and the community. She
was a member of the United Church and Mills Women’s Institute for many
years. A loving and loved mother, grandmother, and friend, she will be sadly
missed, but memories will be cherished.
Dearly loved and loving wife of the late George E.
NOLAND, loving and loved
mother of Frederick (predeceased Oct 10 1939,) Doris
MIDDAUGH (husband
Raymond) of Mills, Willard
NOLAND (wife
Donna) of Mills, and Margery
VEAUDRY
(husband Rheo, Ray) of Providence Bay. Dear brother of Ken
WITTY of
Thessalon. Predeceased by sisters Ruby and Bella and brothers Willard, James
and Grant. Dear grandmother of 14 grandchildren and many
great-grandchildren. Also survived by a number of nieces and nephews.
Relatives and Friends will meet at the Burpee-Mills Cemetery on Wednesday,
May 21, 2003 at 11: 00 am for a graveside service. The Reverend Geraldine
BOULD will officiate. There will be no funeral home visitation at Nellie’s request.

SCOTT o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-08-20 published
Lottie Mae
McDONALD
In loving memory of Lottie Mae
McDONALD,
July 29, 1922 to August 14, 2003.
Lottie Mae
McDONALD, a resident of Meadowview Apartments,
Mindemoya, passed away at her residence on Thursday, August 14, 2003
at the age of 81 years. She was born in Gordon Township daughter of
the late William and Sarah
(STRAIN)
SCOTT.
LottieMae had been very
active in her community, having been a member of the Horticultural
Society, The Agricultural Society and a School Board Trustee for 18
years. She had many hobbies, including gardening, knitting, sewing,
and quilting. Well known and respected in her community, she will be
sadly missed by all who knew her. A loving mother, grandmother,
sister and friend, many fond memories will be cherished.
She was predeceased by her husband Jack
McDONALD in 1984. Loving and
loved mother of John and his wife Anita of Sioux Lookout, Peter and
his wife Nancy of Kenora, Carey of Orillia, Penny and husband Milford
of Barrie, Paul and his wife Christine of Sudbury and Adam and his
wife Kathy of Mindemoya. Proud grandmother of Bonnie, Jason,
Jacqueline, Sean, Jane, Casey, Scott, Lindsay, Ben, Kaitlyn and T.J.
Dear sister of Beatrice
BEANGE,
TedSCOTT (predeceased,) Margie
BLACKBURN, Maria
McDERMID, John
SCOTT and Fred
SCOTT.
Friends called the Salem Missionary Church, Spring Bay, on Friday,
August 15, 2003. The funeral service was conducted at the Church on
Saturday,August 16, 2003 with pastor Al
WILKINSON officiating.
Interment in Providence Bay Cemetery. Culgin Funeral Home.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-21 published
Elizabeth Audrey
HEILIG (née
HILLMER)
Daughter of the late Robert and Mabel
HILLMER of Southampton
Ontario and long time resident of Oakville, Ontario Died peacefully
and with grace in her 98th year on February 19th, 2003. She was
predeceased by her husband Carl, her son Kenneth, her brother
George HILLMER and her sister-in-law Margaret
HEILIG.
She will
be missed by her son Bob (Margaret), daughter Margie (Ron), daughter-in-law
Kay SCOTT and her ten grandchildren- John, Katherine
HEINRICHS,
Nancy, Mike; Chris, David, Karen
GRANT, Linda, James; Daniel
ROGERS.
She is also survived by her sister-in-law Alice
HEILIG
of Hamilton and 15 great-grandchildren. We would like to thank
Tita BAGUISA for her devoted care of Elizabeth and the staff
of North York Seniors Health Centre for their sensitive support.
A Memorial Service will be held on February 22nd at the North
York Seniors Health Centre, 2 Buchan Court, North York at 2: 00pm.
In lieu of flowers donations may be sent to the Marine Heritage
Society, Box 421, Southampton, Ontario N0H 2L0 or your favourite
charity.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-06 published
Died▼This▼Day▼ -- Thomas
SCOTT, 1870
Thursday, March 6, 2003 - Page R9
Orangeman adventurer and settler born about 1842 at Clandeboye,
Ireland, in 1863, arrived in Canada and drifted west, in 1869,
settled at Red River Colony (Manitoba) to work as a labourer,
held anti-Catholic views fiercely opposed to Métis, arrested
by Louis RIEL's followers, insulted and provoked jailers, in
March, 1870, put on trial for insubordination and condemned to
death, executed by Métis firing squad at Fort Garry.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-07 published
OXTOBY,
WillardGurdon
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at Trinity College,
the University of Toronto. Widely respected for his contribution
to the understanding of other faiths, Will contributed to and
edited the widely read book World Religions. Born in 1933 in
Marin County, California, Will graduated Phi Beta Kappa from
Stanford University and earned his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies
at Princeton, with post-doctoral studies at Harvard Divinity
School. After working for two years in Jerusalem with the team
translating and interpreting the Dead Sea Scrolls, Will received
his ordination from the Presbyterian Church in California. In
his more than 40-year career as a professor, he taught at McGill,
Yale, the University of Toronto, and the College of William and
Mary. At the U of T, he launched the Graduate Centre for the
Study of Religion in 1976. Will married Layla
JURJI in 1958,
and together they had two children, David and Susan
OXTOBY.
Subsequent
to Layla's death from cancer in 1980, Will married Julia
CHING,
a renowned scholar of Chinese philosophy and religion, and recipient
of the Order of Canada. Julia, the adoptive mother of John
CHING,
who died of cancer in 2001. Will's loving care for both Layla
and Julia during their illnesses will be long remembered. Willard
OXTOBY died of cancer on March 6 in Toronto, at age 69. He will
be greatly missed by his daughters-in-law Julie
SCOTT and Helen
CHING, by grandchildren Duke and Tessa
OXTOBY and Erica and Michelle
CHING, and by his brother Lowell and sister Louise and their
families. Will touched the lives of many Friends and colleagues,
and will be remembered fondly by many former students. The family
will receive visitors at Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton
Ave. W., on Sunday, March 9 from 2-5 p.m. Funeral Service will
beheld at Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin Ave., on Wednesday,
March 12 at 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
in memory of Willard G.Oxtoby, c/o The Hospital for Sick Children
Foundation supporting Neurosurgery, 555 University Ave. Toronto,
M5G 1X8 or online at www.sickkids.ca.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-22 published
Died▲▼This▲▼Day▲▼ -- Richard
SCOTT, 1913
Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - Page R7
Politician born February 25, 1825, at Prescott, Ontario; in 1852,
elected mayor of Ottawa; won seat in provincial parliament; in
1874, named to Senate by Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie
served as Secretary of State 1874-78, and 1896-1908; died in
Ottawa.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-12 published
Notice To Creditors And Others
All claims against the estate of Mary Pauline
OAKLEY, late of
the City of Toronto and Province of Ontario, who died on the
22nd day of November, 2002, must be filed with the undersigned
personal representatives on or before July 17, 2003. Thereafter,
the undersigned will distribute the assets of the said Estate
having regard only to the claims then filed
Dated at Toronto this 10th day of June, 2003.
Ronald L. MacFEETERS, Sheila A.
MacFEETERS and Linton W.
SCOTT,
Estate Trustees With A Will, by Homested and Sutton, Barristers
and Solicitors, Suite 700, 4 King Street W., Toronto, Ontario
M5H 1B6
Page B11

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-12 published
Three cheers for a funny fellow
Like his hapless Canadian hero, he often found himself in hilarious
situations
By Carol COOPERSpecial▼ to The Globe and Mail Thursday, June
12, 2003 - Page R9
Once in the middle of an interview at the Toronto airport, writer
Donald JACK left to fetch a document from his car. Notorious
for a sense of direction so poor he found it difficult to navigate
through a city park, let alone the airport's massive parking
lot, Mr. JACK took so long to find his vehicle that by the time
he returned the interviewers had gone.
Like Bartholomew Bandy, the hapless hero of The Bandy Papers,
Mr. JACK's eight-volume comic-novel series describing an Ottawa
Valley boy's adventures during both world wars and between, the
author often found himself in hilarious situations, made the
more so by his telling.
A three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for
Humour, Mr.
JACK died last week at his home in England. He was
Listeners were reduced to tears of laughter by his tales of construction
disasters while having a villa built in Spain; a house sale falling
through on closing day; and an aging bright yellow car named
Buttercup, whose sun roof shattered soon after it was searched
for drugs at the Spanish-French border, showering Mr.
JACK with
glass, insects and rust.
Once, while being toured with his daughter around the offices
of his publisher, McClelland and Stewart, Mr.
JACK entered the
boardroom and shouted with surprise. There on the carpet lay
a large amount of dog excrement left by an employee's pet. In
his Bandy-like way, the writer very nearly stepped into it.
"If you could choose one author out of the entire world who during
a visit to his publisher would stumble across this, it would
be Donald JACK," said Douglas
GIBSON, president and publisher
of McClelland and Stewart, who knew the writer for more than 30
years.
"Things would go wrong for Don, very seldom caused by himself,"
said Munroe
SCOTT, a close friend of more than 45 years. "He
would narrate all this stuff either in person or in a letter
and make it all hilarious, because he always saw, in retrospect
at any rate, the funny side of things. You'd be doubled up with
laughter."
Despite Mr.
JACK's incident-prone nature, it would be a mistake
to see Mr.
JACK as a buffoon, said Mr.
SCOTT, also a writer.
"He was enormously well read, erudite and could handle the language
with aplomb at many levels. He could make me feel like a Philistine."
Said author Austin
CLARKE, who was Mr.
JACK's neighbour for five
years during the 1960s. "He was a quiet, reserved, retiring kind
of man. You would never have known he was a writer."
Mr. JACK's
Leacock medals came for three volumes of The Bandy
Papers: Three Cheers for Me, in 1963, That's Me in the Middle,
in 1974 and
Me Bandy, You Cissie, in 1980. Published between
1963 and 1996, they still enjoy a loyal following, including
a Web site which draws mail from around the world. Six of the
eight volumes were recently reissued by McClelland and Stewart.
Drawn from Mr.
JACK's fascination with the First World War, the
rural people he met in the Ottawa Valley and his time in the
Royal Air Force, The Bandy Papers feature the blundering Bartholomew
Wolfe Bandy, who in the first volume, Three Cheers for Me, inadvertently
becomes a hero, despite capturing his own colonel by mistake.
Ensuing volumes follow Mr. Bandy's adventures through to the
Second World War. Although devastatingly funny, they also describe
war's horrors and the realities of the home front, and lampoon
war's leaders.
Mr. Bandy encounters and influences historical figures, such
as then British minister of defence Winston Churchill, and generously
offers him use of the altered Bandy phrase "blood, sweat, toil
and tears."
While best known for The Bandy Papers, Mr.
JACK wrote countless
documentary film scripts, stage, television and radio plays,
as well as two non-fiction books: the history of a Toronto radio
station, Sinc, Betty and the Morning Man, and another about medicine
in Canada, Rogues, Rebels and Geniuses.
His third play, The Canvas Barricade, won first prize in the
Stratford Shakespearean Playwriting Competition in 1960. Produced
in 1961, it was the first, and remains the only, original Canadian
play performed on the main stage of the Stratford Festival.
Mr. JACK, however, did not see much of its opening. He left the
auditorium for the lobby. "During the performance, we'd be aware
of a crack of light from a door opening slightly and a white
face would stare through, then vanish for a while, before another
door would open a crack, and the same apparition would fleetingly
appear," Mr. Scott said.
Born on December 6, 1924 in Radcliffe, Lancashire, England, Donald
Lamont JACK was one of four children of a British doctor and
a nurse from Prince Edward Island. After attending Bury Grammar
School in Lancashire and Marr College in Scotland, he gained
enough qualifications to attend London University.
While stationed in Germany with the Royal Air Force in the last
year of the Second World War, Mr.
JACK attempted short-story
writing, but thought he lacked talent. After his mother asked
him, "Isn't it about time you left home?" Mr.
JACK immigrated
to Canada in 1951.
Interspersed with jobs as a member of a surveying crew in Alberta
and a bank teller in Toronto, Mr.
JACK studied at the Canadian
TheatreSchool in Toronto run by Sterndale
BENNETT.
There he
wrote two plays, one of which drew praise from theatre critic
Nathan COHEN and a job offer from a film Company. Mr.
COHEN later
wrote Mr. Scott, decrying Canadian theatre's "shameful treatment"
of Mr. JACK, which largely ignored him.
A theatrical background enhanced Mr.
JACK's writing, according
to Mr. Gibson. "His dialogue was terrific and his scene-setting
was excellent."
After leaving the school, with the encouragement of his wife,
Nancy, whom he married in 1952, Mr.
JACK worked in the script
department of Crawley Films in Ottawa. Two years later in 1955,
the company's head, Budge
CRAWLEY, let him go because he thought
Mr. JACK would never make a good writer.
A dry first year of freelancing followed, until in 1957 Mr.
JACK
sold the play version of his novelette Breakthrough, published
in Maclean's, to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Television.
It became the first Canadian television play to be simultaneously
telecast to the United States.
He never looked back. By 1972, A Collection of Canadian Plays,
Vol. 1, which included Exit Muttering by Mr.
JACK, noted he had
written 40 television plays, 35 documentary film scripts, several
radio plays and four stage plays. The works included Royal Canadian
Navy and Canadian Armed Forces training films for the National
Film Board and often demanded a great deal of research.
Mr. JACK wrote with military discipline, beginning at 9 a.m.,
taking tea at 11 a.m., lunch at 1 p.m., tea again at 3 p.m. and
finishing at 5 p.m. "All my life, I swear, that routine never
altered," said one of his daughters, Lulu
HILTON.
Persisting in writing drafts in pen and ink long before adopting
the typewriter and, much later, a word processor, Mr.
JACK often
developed storylines while walking. A 1959 Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation press release explains Mr.
JACK's dedication: "My
self-discipline is to keep reminding myself of how lucky I am
to be able to be the only thing I ever really wanted to be --
a writer."
During the early 1980s, Mr.
JACK and his wife returned to England
to be near their daughters who had emigrated there, and their
grandchildren. Mr.
JACK missed Canada's open spaces and its classless
society, and visited often.
At the time of his death, he was working on the ninth volume
of The Bandy Papers. He died on or about June 2 of a massive
stroke at his home in Telford, Shropshire, England. He leaves
his two daughters, Maren and Lulu, six grandchildren and one
great-grandchild, a brother and a sister. His wife Nancy died
in 1991.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-23 published
GILLESPIE,
HarrietLouise (née
MORTON)
Died peacefully on June 21, 2003. Harriet was born May 24, 1926
in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, daughter of Edith L. and
W. Douglas
MORTON.
Devoted wife of John B.
GILLESPIE, Q.C., Toronto, for
almost 55 wonderful years. Loving mother of Joan (Andrew
POTTINGER,)
Jill, Jay (Lili
HOFSTADER) and Susan (Paul
NICHOLAS). Grandmother
of Leigh and Drew
POTTINGER of W. Vancouver, Ben and Claire
SCOTT
of Sydney, Australia, Sean and Jackie
GILLESPIE of Toronto and
Hattie NICHOLAS of Ottawa. Sister of Douglas B.
MORTON and Scott
MORTON,
NovaScotia.Service will be held on Wednesday, June
25, 2003 at 3 p.m. at St. Leonard's Anglican Church, 25 Wanless
Avenue. No visitation is planned. In lieu of flowers, donations
in Harriet's memory may be made to either Sunnybrook Hospital
or The Canadian Cancer Society.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-24 published
DiedThisDay -- Dorothy
COLLINS, 1994
Thursday, July 24, 2003 - Page R7
Singer and actor born Marjorie
CHANDLER in Windsor, Ontario,
on November 18, 1926; in 1950s, performed on television's Your
Hit Parade; sang trademark Be Happy, Go Lucky for sponsor Lucky
Strike cigarettes; later performed weekly top hits; in the 1960s,
demonstrated flair for comedy in helping set up gags on unwitting
victims for Allen Funt's Candid Camera; married to bandleader/composer
Raymond SCOTT, with whom she ran a record label; starred in original
Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim's Follies; regarded as one
of finest vocalists of her era; died of heart attack in New York.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-31 published
Died▲This▲Day▲ -- Jay
SCOTT, 1993
Thursday, July 31, 2003 - Page R7
Journalist, critic and author born Jeffrey Scott
BEAVEN in Lincoln,
Neb., on October 4, 1949; raised in New Mexico. Moved to Canada
in 1975 and, two years later, relocated from Calgary to Toronto
(changing his name to Jay
SCOTT) to write insightful film reviews
for The Globe and Mail until his death at 43 from Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome-related causes.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-04 published
Artist and portraitist refused to compromise
Works in his trademark use of colour hang in the Art Gallery
of Ontario, Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital and in private collections
By Carol COOPERSpecial▲ to The Globe and Mail Thursday, September
4, 2003 - Page R9
When the director of the University of Toronto's Hart House Gallery
needed a portrait of Hart House warden Dr. Jean
LENGELLÉ, she
called artist Gerald
SCOTT.
"In this case, Gerry was a perfect fit for Jean, because Jean
wanted something that was not staid and traditional, which is
certainly Gerry," said the director, Judi
SCHWARTZ.
"He [Dr. LENGELLÉ] liked the patterning approach that Gerry took,
and the two of them got along very well."
Mr. SCOTT painted the 1977
LENGELLÉ portrait and countless others
in the manner of his friend and mentor, Group of Seven artist Fred
VARLEY.
"Gerry placed colours together that you wouldn't think of, and
when you stand back from the painting, you get the effect of
the work, and when you get closer to it, you start to notice
the colours," Ms.
SCHWARTZ said of the
LENGELLÉ portrait.
One of the foremost Canadian portrait painters, whose works hung
in the inaugural exhibition of Toronto's prominent Greenwich
Gallery along with those of Michael Snow, Graham Coughtry and
William Ronald and are found in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto's
MountSinaiHospital and numerous private collections, Mr.
SCOTT
died of cancer at the age of 76. Along with Dr.
LENGELLÉ,
Mr.SCOTT's subjects included a Bermudan prime minister and a Baroness
Rothschild. One of six children, whose father worked as a building
engineer and car salesman, Gerald William
SCOTT was born in Saint
John. Although his birth certificate reads September 30, 1926,
Mr. SCOTT always said it was wrong and he was born in 1925. To
help support his family during the Depression, Mr.
SCOTT danced
on the city's docks, missing school to do so. After service in
the Canadian army during the Second World War, he returned to
Toronto where his family had settled.
There he met and married the Italian countess Josephine Maria
INVIDIATTA. An
English teacher who recognized her husband's gifts,
she taught Mr.
SCOTT to read. Thereafter, he read incessantly,
devouring all types of material. Countess
INVIDIATTA also encouraged
Mr. SCOTT to attend the Ontario College of Art, now named the
Ontario College of Art and Design.
Graduating from the college in 1949, Mr.
SCOTT won the Reeves
Award for all-round technical proficiency in drawing and painting.
After a short career in advertising and turning down an opportunity
to do a cover for Time magazine, he focused on fine art.
Mr. SCOTT taught at his alma mater part-time from 1952 to 1958
and full-time for a period beginning in 1963. And he participated
in shows at both The Roberts Gallery and The Greenwich Gallery,
later renamed The Isaacs Gallery.
While other artistic styles, such as abstract expressionism came
and went, Mr.
SCOTT continued with portraiture. "He didn't want
to compromise his style," said his son Paul
SCOTT. "He didn't
follow trends."
Lacking the time to develop a body of work for a show, and with
a self-effacing temperament which disliked the gallery scene,
by the mid-eighties Mr.
SCOTT no longer exhibited his work, sticking
to commissions and teaching, and writing plays and poetry.
Teaching took up much of Mr.
SCOTT's time, and he was known as
a good one. For 25 years, he taught at the Three Schools of Art
and later at the Forest Hill Art Club, both in Toronto.
"He was an inspirational teacher," said Michael
GERRY, a student
of Mr. SCOTT for six years and now an instructor at Central Technical
High School in Toronto.
"He was one of the few people around who understands the vocabulary.
He really knew his lessons. Not only was he skillful, he was
thoughtful, unusually thoughtful. Colour and temperature were
his specialty."
Said his friend and fellow artist Telford
FENTON, "He had wonderful
use of colour. It spoke to you."
A deliberate, patient and methodical instructor, popular with
Rosedale matrons, Mr.
SCOTT taught his students to observe colour.
"He could see colour everywhere," said Joan
CONOVER, who served
as a portrait model for Mr.
SCOTT. 'They're [the colours] there,
Joanie,' he would say to me. 'All you have to do is stop looking.
Close your eyes and then open them, very quickly. Close them,
open them again, and you'll get a brief glimpse [of the colours].'"
Mr. SCOTT also demonstrated painting for his students. "Most
teachers would not demonstrate," said another
SCOTT student Roger
BABCOCK. "
His demonstrations were like a Polaroid picture. They
would form before your eyes."
When students complained of lack of subjects, Mr.
SCOTT told
them how he stayed up nights painting works of his hand.
As he taught, Mr.
SCOTT discussed the Bible, religion or politics.
But he would not discuss his war experiences, according to Ms.
CONOVER. "It made his stomach hurt," she said.
Mr. SCOTT used his right thumb for certain strokes, and was highly
critical of his work, only signing it with persuasion.
GoodFriends since the fifties with Mr.
FENTON, the pair was
known as the Laurel and Hardy of the art world.
Once, they sold the same painting to three different clients,
eventually making good to all three. Another time while sailing,
Mr. SCOTT's boat crashed into the dock of the Royal Canadian
YachtClub.Always charming Mr.
SCOTT ended up in the club's
bar, along with those of his party, treated to a round of drinks.
Mr. SCOTT continued working until he suffered a heart attack
three years ago.
He died on July 13 and leaves his partner Joyce, two ex-wives,
children Paul, Sarah, Hannah, Rebecca, Aaron, Amelia Jordan,
Jarod and Dana, and five grandchildren. His first wife, Josephine,
and a son, Simon, predeceased him.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-17 published
Malcolm "Mac"
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON
By Beth THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSONWednesday,September 17, 2003 - Page A26
Husband, father, grandfather, entrepreneur. Born May 1, 1936,
in Montreal. Died March 13, in Lindsay, Ontario, of cancer, aged
From a very early age, Mac was intrigued with the workings of
the world and anxious to find his place in it. It didn't take
him long to land his first job, as a 12-year-old delivering telegrams
on bicycle throughout hilly Montreal, and later, grocery orders,
thrilled with every small tip he received. Over the course of
the next few years he would hold a variety of jobs, assisting
a number of uncles in their wide-ranging business ventures including
one who trained horses at Blue Bonnets racetrack, one who ran
a house painting company, and one who owned a cigar store on
SherbrookeStreet. As the only child of John and Gertie
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON,
he regaled his parents often with work anecdotes. Story-telling
was a trait Mac cultivated early and called upon often throughout
his life.
Growing up in the east end of Montreal, his first life lessons
were learned on the street: how to speak French and how to make
Friends quickly, two traits he proudly carried with him throughout
his life. After graduating from Sir George Williams (now Concordia
University,) he married his high-school girlfriend, Ann
SCOTT,
in 1958, and accepted a job with Armstrong Cork in Montreal.
Two children soon followed, Steve and Beth, and then a few job
transfers with Armstrong, first to Waterloo, Quebec, and then
to Lindsay, Ontario, in the capacity of plant manager of Britton
Carpets. It was in Lindsay that his third child, Max, was born.
He left the carpet mill in the early 1970s to begin living his
real dream -- working in the hospitality industry. He built a
small inn in Lindsay, the Red Carpet Inn, starting with just
12 rooms and a restaurant. Over time, and with the help of his
family and business partners, he successfully grew the business
to include 64 guest rooms, several banquet facilities, a restaurant
and bar.
In 1988, widowed and aged 52, Mac was at a place in life where
others might start to slow down. He chose to gear up. He found
love again and began sharing his life with Judy
MATTE, whom he
married in 1990, welcoming her two grown children Dan and Julie.
By this time, Mac had sold the Red Carpet Inn and was initiating
a new chapter in his career: Pizza Hut. The first franchise was
built in Lindsay, and within a few years, he and his family had
grown the business to include 18 stores: 11 in Ontario (including
one Taco Bell and one Kentucky Fried Chicken) and seven in Quebec.
Throughout his career, Mac was active with a number of organizations,
most notably serving as the charter treasurer of the Lindsay
Ross Memorial Hospital Foundation from January 1989 to June 1992.
He also offered his services as party treasurer of the Victoria-Haliburton
Liberal Party. In a business capacity, Mac sat on numerous committees
for the Pizza Hut/Tricon organization.
His efforts did not go unnoticed: he won the 1988 National Pizza
Hut Franchisee of the Year Award, the 1994 Franchise Business
Consultant Award and the 2001 Tricon Global Partnering Award.
Mac was not immune to tragedy, having to endure the death of
his son Steve in 1999, but he bore it bravely, choosing to focus
his positive energy and ever-ready sense of humour on his growing
family, which had expanded to include eight grandchildren and
a number of daughters- and sons-in-law.
Although many will remember Mac for his keen business sense,
his real legacy is his staunch belief in the indomitability of
the human spirit, never losing sight of what tomorrow had to
offer. As he was fond of telling his grandchildren, "Keep the
faith," a motto he himself practised until the end.
Beth THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON is Mac's daughter.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-19 published
SCOTT,
LewisClayton - August 16, 1909 - September 17, 2003
Died peacefully at Southlake Village Nursing Home, age 94, after
a full and distinguished life as a sportsman. In an era when
shooting, fishing, hunting and riding were the epitome of sportsmanship,
Scott excelled at all.
Born on August 16, 1909 in Vermillion, South Dakota, Lew came
to Toronto at an early age with his family. One of his first
employers was the Toronto Carpet Company (where he met his future
wife AlicePARKER.) He then moved on to the brokerage business
with Barrett Sye and Co. as well as in the Toronto Grain Exchange.
He established L.C. Scott Construction Company in the 1940's
which operated in Canada, the United States and England. After
World War 2, the company built a large number of schools and
hospitals in Southern Ontario as well as some of the post war
homes that were built in New Toronto and North York.
Lew had a lifelong passion for horses. During a family stint
in California when he was a youngster, he first galloped racehorses
at Hollywood Park and when he grew too big, switched to exercising
polo ponies. After his business career was established, he acquired
property in Markham - Wyndstone Farm - from which he bred and
raised thoroughbred racehorses, steeplechasers and sport horses
as well as bird dogs and prize- winning Shorthorn cattle.
Lew was an equestrian sportsman of international stature. He
competed in steeplechasing and timber racing in Canada and the
United States winning a number of prestigious trophies including
the Prince of Wales trophy three times. He played polo in Canada,
the United States, England and Barbados and competed at horse
shows across Ontario. He was a keen foxhunter and served as the
whipper-in for the Toronto and North York Hunt for 20 years prior
to becoming a Master of Foxhounds in 1972, a position he held
until 1990.
He raised bird dogs and competed with them all over North America
in the 40's and the 50's. He was a top fly fisherman and enjoyed
duck and pheasant hunting. Both he and his wife Alice were crack
shots and long time members of the Toronto Gun Club. As a young
man, he was a member of the Argonaut Rowing Club.
At one time, a member or director of the Toronto and North York
Hunt, the Canadian Hunter Society, the Canadian Equestrian Team,
the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society, the Toronto Polo Club
and several U.S. polo clubs, the Cowdray Polo Club, United Kingdom
Canadian director of the Master of Foxhounds Association of America,
the Goodwood Club and the Argonaut Rowing Club. He was also an
accomplished pilot who loved flying and had owned several planes.
In 1989, after 54 years of marriage, he lost his beloved wife
Alice whose charm, hospitality and hard work was the foundation
of the family and the basis which allowed Lew's energetic pursuit
of his interests.
Predeceased also by his only son Lewis Christian (Skipper). Leaves
daughters Alice
FERRIER (Glen) and Susan Jane
ANSTEY (Michael
VANEVERY,) granddaughters Jennifer
ANSTEY,
ElizabethTRACEY,
Janet Louise
GAYFORD,
MaryFRALEIGH and Margaret Ann
SPROULE.
Great grandchildren Owen
TRACEY, Will
FRALEIGH, Jamie
FRALEIGH
and Tom FRALEIGH.
He will be remembered for his enthusiasm, toughness, loyalty
and keen interest in the people and things around him.
If desired, donations in his memory may be made to Think First
Canada (for injury prevention in sports and recreation), Med-West
Medical Centre, Suite 2-227, 750 Dundas St. West, Toronto, Ontario
M6J 3S3 or to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Endowment Fund.
A Private family service was held. Arrangements entrusted to
the Thompson Funeral Home, 29 Victoria Street, Aurora (905-727-5421).

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-07 published
Jonathan SWALLOW
By Chris MALETTETuesday,October 7, 2003 - Page A24
Teacher, educational software consultant, ski and soccer coach,
and dad. Born in Glenn Ridge, N.J., on April 20, 1958. Died April
27 in Stirling, Ontario, of sudden heart failure, aged 45.
Kids who love a cold day on a fast ski hill, somewhat sedentary
soccer moms and dads who liked to break an occasional sweat and,
strangely, frogs everywhere will miss Jonathan
SWALLOW.
Jonathan
was 45 when, in the prime of an athletic and active life, his
heart -- harbouring a hidden, undiagnosed ailment that affected
the rhythm of the organ -- betrayed an otherwise vibrant man
in his prime.
Born in suburban New Jersey and educated at Syracuse University,
Jonathan came to Canada in the 1980s to undertake graduate studies
at McMaster University where he met the woman who would become
his wife, Mary Ellen
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON. He went on to achieve his PhD
at the University of Toronto.
In his professional career, Jonathan was lauded by scholars for
his cutting-edge work in interactive learning software. At Waterloo,
he collaborated with professor Norm
SCOTT and the Centre for
Learning and Teaching Through Technology -- or LT3 -- to create
a program that allows biology students to dissect frogs in a
virtual environment, on computer, without harming a single amphibian.
After moving to Stirling, north of Belleville, Ontario, and beginning
a family there, Jonathan made fast and strong Friends in the
local amateur theatre community. He helped get couch-potato parents
off the sofa for an adult soccer league and coached in the Stirling
and District Minor Soccer League. But Jonathan truly came to
the fore on the ski slopes of Ontario.
Batawa Ski Club holds many memories of Jonathan. During the winter
he was either on the road, at a ski race, over by the fireplace
talking earnestly with a parent, sitting at a table with his
family and Friends or on the hill having a great time with his
racers.
At a moving and funny, yet surreal, memorial service for Jonathan
at the tatty but active ski club in May, one of Jonathan's closest
Friends and fellow Batawa racing coach, Jeff
DURISH, remembered
Jonathan's dual sense of duty and of fun: "The Rookie program,
for children not old enough to travel with a league team, had
fallen on hard times and nobody had run it for a number of years.
Jonathan phoned me and talked me into helping him revive the
program. Helping Jonathan was one of the best decisions that
I have ever made. I always meant to thank him for it, now I wish
I had."
Jonathan would always show up to practice with a backpack full
of beanbags, ropes and bungee cords, his arms full of bamboo
poles and his head full of crazy ideas. All the other coaches
would scratch their heads and marvel at the weird and wonderful
drills he came up with -- four kids hanging onto a bamboo pole
doing 360s down the hill, racers hanging onto long ropes as they
carved big turns around beanbags. Those crazy beanbags were always
strewn across the hill.
Of course there were always the weird songs and dances to go
along with the drills. It was effective, it was amazing, it was
silly, it was fun, it was wonderful and full of joy -- it was
Jonathan.
"Jonathan was an exceptional coach because he was a great teacher,
an inventor and a child at heart," said brother-in-law Rob
TERRY.
Jonathan leaves wife Mary Ellen, daughter Jenny Lee and son Joseph,
as well as scores of grateful soccer kids, skiers and leopard
frogs everywhere who croak their thanks for a life well lived.
Chris MALETTE is a ski dad who shared a mug or two of hot chocolate
with Jonathan
SWALLOW.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-11 published
Creator of Savage God
Theatre director was a Canadian nationalist, a fan of the avant
garde and a champion of playwright George Ryga. He was also seen
as a kook, a dilettante and a street fighter
By Tom HAWTHORNSpecial to The Globe and Mail Saturday, October
11, 2003 - Page F9
John JULIANI was a provocateur in life as on stage. A man passionate
about the possibilities of theatre, he roused reverence in some,
antipathy in others.
His most infamous act was to challenge the Stratford Festival's
newly hired artistic director to a duel. Robin
PHILLIPS's offence
was that he is British when Mr.
JULIANI and others were certain
a land as grand as Canada was capable of producing a director
for its Shakespearean theatre.
What he called a "romantic gesture with tongue in cheek" earned
cheers from Canadian theatre directors and sneers from much of
the theatre establishment.
Mr. JULIANI, who has died at the age of 63, was an unabashed
Canadian nationalist, a dedicated fan of the avant garde, an
ardent defender of the right of actors to a decent living, a
champion of playwright George Ryga and a tireless figure so commanding
as to develop an intense loyalty among acolytes.
At the same time, he was seen as a kook, a dilettante and a street
fighter. One critic called him "the Tiger Williams of Canadian
theatre," his pugnacious approach earning him comparison to a
notorious hockey goon. In his defence, Mr.
JULIANI explained
that he was merely a "true believer" with opinions on controversial
subjects.
Mr. JULIANI's credits were long and varied, including spontaneous
Sixties street happenings such as the staging of his own wedding
as a theatrical performance and brief appearances on such 1990s
television dramas as The X-Files.
From 1982 until 1997, Mr.
JULIANI was executive producer of radio
drama for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio in Vancouver.
He helped to bring to air many celebrated productions, including
the brilliant and provocative Dim Sum Diaries by playwright Mark
LEIREN-
YOUNG.
Mr. JULIANI also possessed a head-turning beauty, with a profile
as striking as a Roman bust. Radio host Bill
RICHARDSON commented
on his handsomeness at a raucous memorial after his death, calling
him a "hunka hunka burnin' love." Some said he had the looks
and bearing of a Shakespearean king.
John Charles
JULIANI was born in Montreal on March 24, 1940.
Raised in a working-class neighbourhood, he attended Loyola College
and was an early graduate from the fledgling National Theatre
School.
He spent two seasons as an actor at Stratford before being hired
as a theatre teacher at Simon Fraser University in 1966. The
new university atop Burnaby Mountain east of Vancouver was a
hotbed of radicalism in politics and the arts. Mr.
JULIANI bristled
at an imposed curriculum and so infuriated the administration
that he was banned from the campus in 1969.
Mr. JULIANI was heavily influenced by the writing of Antonin
Artaud, a Surrealist who championed a theatre based on the imagination.
He long sought to erase the barrier between scripted text and
sensory impression, between performer and audience, to mixed
success.
After moving to the West Coast, Mr.
JULIANI launched a series
of experiments in theatre. He credited these productions to Savage
God, which was less a troupe in the traditional sense than a
title granted to any performance involving Mr.
JULIANI.
The name
came from William Butler Yeats's awestruck reaction to Alfred
Jarry's Ubu Roi: "After us, the Savage God?"
Savage God defied explanation, though many tried and even Mr.
JULIANI offered suggestions. Savage God was "an anthology of
question marks," he once said. (It was, after all, the 1960s.)
"Savage God is simply the Imagination," he told the Vancouver
Sun, "insatiable, unrelenting, fiercely energetic, wary of categorization,
fond of contradiction and inveterately iconoclastic."
In January, 1970, Mr.
JULIANI married dancer Donna
WONG, a ceremony
conducted as a Savage God performance at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
He repeated the process at the christening of his son. Ms.
WONG-
JULIANI
would be his domestic and drama partner for more than three decades.
In 1971, the streets of Vancouver were the scene of several spontaneous
and sometimes incomprehensible -- performances under the aegis
of PACET ("pilot alternative complement to existing theatre.")
The $18,000 project, funded by the federal government, incorporated
Gestalt therapy sessions in street performances.
Theatrical events took place willy-nilly across the city, including
malls, the airport, the library and Stanley Park. Admission was
not charged, nor did all spectators appreciate their role as
audience to avant-garde performance. A scene in which bicyclists
wearing gas masks pedalled along city streets left many scratching
their heads in puzzlement.
In 1974, Mr.
JULIANI moved to Toronto to set up a graduate theatre-studies
program at York University.
He called the program
PEAK ("
Performance,Example,Animation,
Katharsis") and perhaps should have found an acronym for
PEEK,
as the instructor and his class stripped naked to protest against
a lack of classroom space.
The challenge to the new Stratford artistic director in 1974
was written on a piece of parchment and delivered in London by
Don RUBIN, a York colleague. Alas, Mr.
RUBIN could not find a
proper gauntlet and wound up ceremoniously striking Mr.
PHILLIPS
with a red rubber glove, an absurd note to a theatrical protest.
In 1978, Mr.
JULIANI took the stage in a Toronto production of
Children of Night, portraying Janusz Korczak, a doctor and teacher
who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto. The critics were appalled.
Gina MALLET of the Toronto Star said Mr.
JULIANI's performance
sullied Dr. Korczak's memory. Jay
SCOTT of The Globe and Mail,
noting "the dreadfulness" of Mr.
JULIANI's acting, said the production
robbed the dead of their dignity.
From the stage, Mr.
JULIANI challenged the Star's critic to a
public debate on the aesthetics of theatre. He also wrote a letter
to the editor, noting that Holocaust survivors in the audience
had wholeheartedly embraced the production.
Mr. JULIANI wound up in Edmonton, where he continued to condemn
the "exorbitance, elitism and museum theatre" of the establishment.
In 1982, he directed and co-wrote Latitude 55°, a feature film
with just two characters -- a slick woman from the city and a
Polish potato farmer -- set in a snowbound cabin. "It is filled
with a passionate conviction that evaporates in pretentious pronouncements,"
TheGlobe'sCaroleCORBEIL wrote, "filled with truthful moments
that evaporate in the desire to use every narcissistic trick
in the book."
In a 1983 book examining the alternative theatre movement in
Canada, author Renate
USMIANI devoted most of a chapter to Mr.
JULIANI, a decision that got her a scathing rebuke from a reviewer
who considered him worthy of little more than a footnote.
"His works are curiosities; at best, they are worthy experiments
in Artaudian theory," Boyd
NEIL wrote in a Globe review. "But
they are neither popular... nor influential."
Mr. JULIANI's years at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio
in Vancouver were both productive and successful. Among the many
projects he directed was a three-part adaptation of Margaret
Laurence'sTheDiviners; King Lear, starring John
COLICOS; a
13-part series titled, Disaster! Acts of God or Acts of Man?"
and, famously, Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, with Leonard
GEORGE
portraying a role once assumed on stage by his late father, Chief
Dan GEORGE.
The surprise selection of Mr.
GEORGE was typical
of Mr. JULIANI's often brilliant casting.
Mr. JULIANI directed a 1989 production of The Glass Menagerie
at the Vancouver Playhouse with Jennifer Phipps and Morris Panych.
Globe reviewer Liam
LACEY praised a production that "opens up
the play like an old treasure chest, and lets in some fresh air
without rearranging or disturbing the work's original grandeurs
and caprices."
Four years later, Mr.
JULIANI was directing a production of the
mystery thriller Sleepwalker when actor Peter
HAWORTH took sick
shortly before opening night. The director suddenly found himself
as the male lead. "Not even the most colossal egotist would want
to do this," he said.
Dim Sum Diaries, a series of monologues written by Mr.
LEIREN-
YOUNG,
received protests when aired by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Radio in 1991. One episode, entitled The Sequoia, in which the
white vendor of a luxury home launches a tirade against the Hong
Kong immigrant who cuts down two rare and spectacular trees on
the property, was accused of being racist. The playwright's well-intentioned
exploration of stereotyping was charged with fostering those
very prejudices.
After directing Dim Sum Diaries, Mr.
JULIANI urged the playwright
to tackle an issue that was dividing his church. Mr.
LEIREN-
YOUNG
remembers replying: "You're talking same-sex marriage in the
Anglican church and you want a straight Jewish guy to write this?"
The resulting play, titled Articles of Faith: The Battle of St.
Alban's, was staged at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver
to great acclaim.
The collaborations between young playwright and veteran director
succeeded in achieving Mr.
JULIANI's goal of inspiring dialogue
through theatre.
Mr. JULIANI had a reputation as a demanding taskmaster for novice
and veteran actors alike. Rehearsals were jokingly called "Savage
God Boot Camp."
He maintained a breakneck pace, both in the theatre and in the
boardroom. He was artistic co-director of Opera Breve, a small
company dedicated to nurturing young singers; president of the
Union of British Columbia Performers (Alliance of Canadian Cinema,
Television and Radio Artists); and, a former national president
of the Directors Guild of Canada, among many boards on which
he served.
Feeling fatigued in early August, Mr.
JULIANI was diagnosed with
liver cancer. The end came swiftly. He died on August 21 at Lions
Gate Hospital in North Vancouver.
He leaves his wife of 33 years, Donna
WONG-
JULIANI, and a son,
Alessandro
JULIANI, an actor. He also leaves brothers Richard
and Norman.
(Wit was long a part of the
JULIANI mystique. The family pet,
a canine named Beau Beau, was referred to in the family's paid
obituary notice as a Savage Dog.)
For one who roused such passions, Mr.
JULIANI felt that he led
a conservative life. "I have always been a square," he once said.
A theatrical farewell to Mr.
JULIANI attracted hundreds to St.
Andrew's Wesley Church in Vancouver on Labour Day, a Monday and
traditionally a quiet date on the theatre calendar. Those in
attendance were encouraged to write remembrances on Post-It notes,
which were then stuck to the church's pillars.
The City of Vancouver has declared next March 24, which would
have been Mr.
JULIANI's 64th birthday, to be Savage God Day.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-04 published
Dorothy Della
SCOTT
By Eugen BANNERMAN,
Thursday,December 4, 2003 - Page A26
Mother, friend, practical joker. Born June 13, 1917. Died October
5, in Wingham, Ontario, of natural causes, aged 86.
Dorothy Scott's grandparents arrived with their family from England
in 1876, and, several years later, rented a house and farm near
Brussels, Ontario
It was a long journey by wagon over the rough, corduroy roads
that wound through Huron County. They carried all their belongings
with them. When they arrived, they found the house was still
occupied, so the family had to make do in the barn's milking
parlour. Dorothy's grandfather was a carpenter and boarded off
one corner of the stable. Her grandmother scrubbed, whitewashed
the walls and ceiling and tidied the place for her growing family,
until the other family moved out.
Dorothy's grandmother was expecting, and it was here she gave
birth to her fifth child (Dorothy's mother), and named her Thirza.
Her grandfather took the newborn infant and wrapped her in a
home-made blanket. He put clean straw in the cattle manger and
laid her in it. "Just like the baby Jesus."
Dorothy told me this story on one of my first visits. I was the
newly appointed United Church minister in Blyth, Ontario, and
at 85, Dorothy was one of its oldest members. Old in years but
not in spirit. Growing old should not keep us from laughing and
having a good time, Dorothy often told me, for as soon as we
stop laughing, we age rapidly. Dorothy's joie de vivre was spontaneous
and infectious. Even when she was hooked up to plastic tubing
supplying her with vital oxygen, the sparkle (and laughter) in
her eyes was always present.
Dorothy Della
SCOTT was born to Thirza
(WALDEN) and John
CALDWELL.
She grew up on her parents' farm and
on June 15, 1938, married
Laurie SCOTT, also a farmer. She received a dining-room suite
and a milk-cow as a wedding gift from her father. They had two
children, Robert and Donald.
Dorothy SCOTT learned as a child to have fun and laugh. In spite
of the hard work and deprivations of farm life, the years did
not repress or smother her inner child. Often it burst forth
in unexpected and unique ways.
Her worst prank, she told me, was when she was a nurse and decided
to play a trick on a new orderly. She had the other nurses cover
her with a sheet as she lay down on a trolley and "played dead."
The new orderly was called and told to take the body to the morgue.
She lay absolutely still until they were in the elevator. Then
she sat up, and frightened the poor man, "really bad," as she
said.
There was also a serious dimension to Dorothy's life. As a young
mother, she almost died giving birth to her second son, Donald.
But in the privacy of that moment, she had a near-death vision
of Christ. "If this was death," [she] thought, "no one need be
afraid."
Dorothy was unsentimental about many things but not her family.
She concluded her memoirs, Dorothy's Memories (2002), by tracing
her own happy life to a happy childhood and loving husband and
family.
Shortly after my arrival in Blyth, Dorothy tested her new minister's
tolerance for humour. She slipped a white envelope into my hand
as I was saying goodbye to parishioners after worship. "Don't
open it now. Give it to your wife and read it when you get home."
It was the first of many jokes from the Internet that made us
laugh with pleasure and anticipation.
We will miss Dorothy, her cheerful disposition, her countless
stories, her white envelopes, and her cushion-seat in the third
row of the sanctuary.
Eugen is Dorothy's friend and minister.

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-23 published
LEITH,
MaryIsobelDaughter of the Reverend M.J. and Mrs.
LEITH (née
SCOTT.)
Born on
September 29, 1907 at Wapella, Saskatchewan, died on December
18, 2003 in Victoria. Predeceased by her sister, Marjorie and
her brother, Scott. She is survived by nieces, nephews and their
families. Miss
LEITH worked under the United Church of Canada,
Women's Missionary Society and Boards of Overseas and Home Missions
for 39 years in Japan and Canada. Private family cremation arrangements.
For those wishing to make a remembrance, donations to the Mission
and Service Fund of the United Church of Canada, 3250 Bloor Street
West, #300, Etobicoke, Ontario, M8X 2Y4 would be appreciated
by the family. Condolences may be offered at www.mccallbros.com
McCall's Of Victoria 250-385-4465

SCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-29 published
McMEHEN,
RuthVictoria
(MILLER)
In Ottawa, Sunday, December 28, 2003. Ruth Victoria
MILLER, born
December 4, 1916. Widow of James
McMEHEN.
Beloved mother of Carol
SCOTT-
MILLER of Vancouver, Jo
RODRIGUEZ
(Gonzalo) of Santo Domingo,
Gordon
(Moira) of Toronto and Kathy
NEMES
(Laszlo) of Auburn,
California. Adored by her 9 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
Devoted aunt to many nieces and nephews. She will be remembered
for her incorrigible sense of humour, her kindness and affection,
and her singular love for her family. She died as she lived,
bravely and unselfishly. Friends may assemble Tuesday at Annunciation
of our Lord Church, 2414 Ogilvie Road, Ottawa for Mass of Christian
Funeral at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Elizabeth Bruyere Palliative Care Unit appreciated.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief.
So dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.
- Robert Frost
Kelly Funeral Homes (613) 235-6712

SCOULER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-22 published
CRAINFORD,
Doreen
(SCOULER)
Died peacefully on October 18, 2003 after 84 years of happy life.
A victim of Alzheimer's Disease, she will be lovingly remembered
and missed by her family, former colleagues of the Royal Academy
of Dancing and her traveling companions. She leaves her son Steven
and her grandchildren Jennifer and David. A memorial gathering
will be held at a later date. Donations to the Alzheimer's Society
in her memory would be appreciated.